The Bird and the Sword, Amy Harmon
The Bird and the Sword, Amy Harmon
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The Bird and the Sword

Author: Amy Harmon

Narrator: Trina Nishimura

Unabridged: 11 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Novel Audio

Published: 10/12/2016


Synopsis

Swallow, daughter, pull them in, those words that sit upon your lips. Lock them deep inside your soul, hide them ‘til they’ve time to grow. Close your mouth upon the power, curse not, cure not, ‘til the hour. You won’t speak and you won’t tell, you won’t call on heaven or hell. You will learn and you will thrive. Silence, daughter. Stay alive.

The day my mother was killed, she told my father I wouldn’t speak again, and she told him if I died, he would die too. Then she predicted the king would sell his soul and lose his son to the sky. My father has a claim to the throne, and he is waiting in the shadows for all of my mother’s words to come to pass. He wants desperately to be king, and I just want to be free. But freedom will require escape, and I’m a prisoner of my mother’s curse and my father’s greed. I can’t speak or make a sound, and I can’t wield a sword or beguile a king. In a land purged of enchantment, love might be the only magic left, and who could ever love . . . a bird?

About Amy Harmon

Amy Harmon is the New York Times bestselling author of A Different Blue, Making Faces, and the Purgatory series. Amy has been a motivational speaker, a teacher, a home school mom, and a member of the Grammy Award-winning Saints Unified Voices Choir, directed by Gladys Knight.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Miranda

Read this one for TCE Book Club!I can forgive a lot of things, but outright stupidity is not one of them.I have loved you every moment of every day, and I will love you until I cease to be. Bird, man, or king, I love you, and I will always love you. Lark is born into a world of magic, an......more

“You don't need wings to fly.” What you truly need is words. And Amy Harmon's words resulted in a work of sheer beauty, that made your chest clench with yearning and your entire existence float, leaving behind every material attachment and concern. The Bird and the Sword was a piece of a d......more

Goodreads review by Christy

5 stars! I only read fantasy occasionally, so this isn’t a book I would normally pick up right away... BUT Amy Harmon is one of my favorite authors so I knew I would read it as soon as I got the chance. I’m so glad I did. The Bird and the Sword is a story that sucked me in from the start. A compl......more

4 Stars I originally rated this book 4 stars with "3.75 Stars" written in the text box here. And then I realized that was fucking stupid. So, 4 big ones, peeps. But moving on. I love it when I crack open a book - Well, to be fair, I'm not really "crackin' open anything like lightly finger tappi......more